For fire transforming in your house, a customized approach with fascinating supplies, textures and scale assures your hearth design is a memorable visual centerpiece. Lastly, I built a mantel out of red oak, adding particulars of wood inlay banding and inset tiles from an artisan tileworks store in Detroit (Pewabic Pottery). I had never designed and created a fire surround before, so I enjoyed the problem and am very, very satisfied with the end result. In case you’re looking to make a much bigger change, including marble can offer a more conventional enchantment, whereas using a up to date tile may assist make the hearth more trendy and attention-grabbing.

The outdated wooden-burning hearth was replaced with a handy, power-saving fuel unit. When you’ve got an excellent brick fire, you have got a surface that you may simply tile over. As soon as the brick was removed, I painted the brass items on the hearth with High Warmth Spray Paint After it was painted, I eliminated the metallic straps that had been connected to the wall and sanded down the wall to take away any debris and left over mortar from the bricks.

The brick encompass was painted Benjamin Moore’s Douglas …